Afghanistan celebrates 3-0 victory over Pakistan in historic football match
Afghanistan, ranked at
139th in the world just above Pakistan, gave home fans little to worry about,
dominating the game from the kick-off and going three goals ahead mid-way
through the second half.
The match was promoted as a symbol of football's ability to foster peace and unite countries in a shared love of sport, but the result was celebrated by many Afghans as a sweet victory over an old and bitter adversity.
The match was promoted as a symbol of football's ability to foster peace and unite countries in a shared love of sport, but the result was celebrated by many Afghans as a sweet victory over an old and bitter adversity.
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Afghanistan's
football team sparked rowdy celebrations across the war-battered nation Aug. 20
after securing an convincing 3-0 win over
arch-rivals Pakistan in the first international match in Kabul for ten years.
A delirious 6,000 capacity crowd packed the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) stadium for a game that unleashed a wave of patriotic pride in a country beset for decades by war, poverty and Islamist extremism
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